It is a small segmented succulent that grows into mounds of tiny stems or joints. In cultivation grows as a small erect segment chains. In habitat the plants stay smaller because the uppermost segments are detachable and drop easily. It is related to Tephrocactus articulatus and reminds some spineless forms of it.
Segments: Grey-green, dark-green or brownish, globose to ovoid, up to 2.5 cm long and wide (but up to 4 cm long or more in cultivation), fragile, spineless with dense glochids. The tubercles are somehow raised but not sharply delimited.
Areoles: 20-25, extending to base, relatively large with white felt and conspicuous tufts of cream, greyish, brownish or reddish-brown glochids not easily detachable. A particularity of this plant is that it seems to be able to completely regrow all the glochids even on old corky basal segments, so the tufts of glochids get denser and denser as the stems age.
Spines: Spineless.
Flower: Up to 3 cm long, dirty white or very pale pink a little hyaline with darker midrib, a green centre and green filaments.
- size of the plant: 5 inches, blooming size.
- well rooted, healthy plant
- contents: cactus-1, potting mix, plant tag-1, pot-1.
- FERTILIZER: Enrich the soil using a fertilizer rich in potassium and phosphorous.( bonemeal powder/BASACOTE FERTILIZER)
- FLOWERING SEASON: It produces pink flowers with a CREAMY base. This cactus blooms in late winter or early spring
- WATERING: Indoor plants will need even less water than an outdoor plant because they are exposed to less sunshine. Keep in mind that overwatering is basically the only way in which you can kill a cactus. So, allow the soil to completely dry out before watering this plant.
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